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This is the README file for EDB, a database program for GNU Emacs.
The bulk of the EDB documentation is in the texinfo file database.texi.
EDB was written by Michael Ernst <mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu>.
Files in EDB
============
(In lexographic order)
Makefile Byte-compile, create documentation, etc., from the shell
README This file: manifest and installation instructions
README-example README file for the separate EDB examples distribution
database.el The main file; primarily loads other files
db-convert.el Changing database structure: add and remove fields, etc.
db-file-io.el Saving databases to disk, loading databases from disk
db-format.el Displaying and editing a single database record
db-interfa.el Keystroke bindings, wrapper functions
db-isbn.el ISBN type
db-isbntst.el Test cases for ISBN type
db-rdb.el Support for RDB databases
db-rep.el Data abstractions and operations upon them
db-search.el Searching and matching records
db-sort.el Sorting records
db-summary.el Summary buffer with limited info about every database record
db-tagged.el Support for tagged database files
db-time.el Definitions of time and date field types
db-two-dbs.el Operations on two databases: merging, comparing, etc.
db-types.el Definitions of useful field types
db-util.el Useful non-EDB specific utility functions
edb.texi Texinfo documentation: user manual
See below for how to get pre-processed copies of the documentation.
Installation
============
See edb-inst.texi for more complete and definitive instructions.
In short, place the .el files in your Emacs load path (probably in a
directory of their own). You can add a directory to your Emacs lisp load
path by putting something similar to the following in your .emacs file:
(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/emacs/edb") load-path))
In order to autoload EDB, put the following in your .emacs file:
(autoload 'db-find-file "database" "EDB database package" t)
Use M-x db-find-file to start up EDB on a particular database file.
It is recommended that, lest it run very slowly, you byte-compile the code.
You can do so either by calling function byte-compile-database, or by
typing "make" to the shell in the EDB directory.
The texinfo documentation uses version 2 of texinfo, which is available
from prep.ai.mit.edu. Earlier versions of texinfo will not properly format
the manual, either for TeX or for info. If you don't have a sufficiently
up-to-date version of texinfo, you can simply get the files edb.dvi,
edb.ps, edb.info, and edb.info-[123456] (six files) from
theory.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/emacs/edb/; these are versions of the documentation
ready for printing and for use in info, respectively. Likewise, you can
get edb-inst.{dbi,ps,info}.
Sample databases can be found in the file examples.tar.Z or the directory
examples, both in theory.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/emacs/edb/.
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